Family-owned Alton funeral home opened in 1999, whose founder was the first Black woman funeral director in Madison County. Its chapel holds up to 200 guests with additional parking, and white doves can be released at a service.

Cremation

Alton funeral home founded in 1935, with its own crematory on site since 2005. Its building, expanded in 2020, has chapels for funeral and memorial services, visitation areas and a family lounge, and the home also sells monuments. Serves families from Alton, Godfrey, East Alton and Wood River.

CremationPre-need arrangements

Alton crematory on site at Gent Funeral Home & Cremation Services, a funeral home founded in 1935, so a loved one never leaves the funeral home's care during cremation.

Crematory

East Alton home for funerals opened in 1989, with its own crematory. It carries metal and wood caskets in a range of styles and a full line of concrete vaults, and arranges anatomical donation to science.

Edwardsville funeral home operating as Saksa Mateer Funeral Home, one of the two Saksa Funeral Homes with Thomas Saksa Funeral Home in Granite City. The Mateer home has operated since 1937.